and Yatabe no Miyakko arrived from the Land of Great Thang. An envoy from Pèkché accompanied Inugami no Kimi to our Court.
11th month, 2nd day. A banquet was given to the Pèkché guest.
11th day. The Koryö Buddhist priest Hyé-Chă returned to his country.
A.D. 616. 24th year, Spring, 1st month. Peach trees and plum trees bore fruit.[1]
3rd month. Three men from the Island of Yaku[2] came hither as emigrants.
(XXII. 29.) Summer, 5th month. Seven persons from Yaku arrived.
Autumn, 7th month. Twenty more persons arrived from Yaku. There were first and last in all thirty persons. They were all settled in Enowi. They never went away again, but all died there.
Autumn, 7th month. Silla sent the Nama, Chuk Syé-să, with tribute of an image of Buddha.[3]
A.D. 617. 25th year, Summer, 6th month. It was reported from the province of Idzumo that there was in the district of Kando a gourd of the size of an amphora.[4]
In this year there were good crops of the five kinds of grain.
A.D. 618. 26th year, Autumn, 8th month, 1st day. Koryö sent envoys with tribute of local productions, and reported that Yang-Ti[5] of the Sui dynasty had invaded that country with a force of 300,000 men, but had, on the contrary, been beaten by them.[6] (XXII. 30.) They therefore sent a present of two captives, named Chên-kung and P‘u-t‘ung, with such things as flutes, cross-bows, and catapults—ten in all. They also sent one camel, bred in their country.
- ↑ In a similar notice below, XXII. 39, the author is satisfied with the more probable statement that they blossomed.
- ↑ Off the south coast of Satsuma.
- ↑ A later work informs us that this image was of gold, two feet high. It was set up in Hōkōji. It sent forth rays of light, and worked miracles from time to time.
- ↑ Some understand here a musical instrument, the body of which was of earthenware.
- ↑ Reigned 605–617.
- ↑ This statement is corroborated both by Chinese and Corean history. The events referred to took place in A.D. 612.
